Customer Reviews

Memorex MC1008 Shower CD Radio

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My parents introduced this as my "expensive" Christmas gift, so I feel bad that they wasted so much money.
I put in the 6 C batteries and by the end of the cd, they were nearly drained. I bought more, but I couldn't get anything to work - no radio reception, screen read "error" every time I put in a cd. I bought an adapter, but still couldn't get it to work again. I tried for so long to get it going. Wish I'd read the reviews on this site earlier. I would've accepted that it was a shoddy product much earlier. Memorex has some cheek!

This is a terrible excuse for a shower radio. The AM and FM reception is terrible wherever you take it in the shower or not. When I tried using the antenna that is included, it still didn't work any better.

The sound quality is poorer than expected. I didn't anticipate much from such a little system, but it's worse than anything I've ever experienced.

To make matters worse this Shower radio eats batteries like crazy. We orginally used regular alkaline and the batteries died after about 2 days of use. We probably ony used it once or twice. Then we bought rechargeable batteries and it ate those faster than the alkaline batteries.

This product is a total waste of money. Before this we had a Sony . I highly recommend it as it didn't eat the batteries and the radio reception was much better. The only downside is that it lacks the cd player. However you can't really use the cd player with the Memorex, because the batteries wouldn't last for more than 3 songs on a cd.

Next project is to write to Memorex to complain about this horrible product.

Uses and drains 6 size "C" Batteries in 38 minutes. I bought the rechargeables, drains those quicker. I bought an adapter. It plays for 20 seconds, stops and says ERROR. If I saved the box and sales slip, I would return it. JUNK - JUNK - JUNK. Sounds like speakers in soup cans.

UPDATE: September 2009
I have not bought a Memorex product since!!!!

Tinny sound is only the first of many problems. It uses batteries at an incredable rate (a AC adapter is not included, so even though I was using it on a counter, not in the shower, I still had to feed it batteries.) I could only tune in one radio station clearly, even with an antenna attached; the control buttons are poorly laid out, and make no intuitive sense. It is dificult to tell at a glance if the unit is turned off, so it is easy to leave it left on by mistake, further draining the batteries. The CD player skipped and would stop in the middle of a song for no apparent reason. This is obviously a product that was rushed to market with little or no testing.

This was a very ill-advised Christmas gift for my wife. Don't be deceived by its sleek appearance in catalogs: in reality, the unit's construction is shoddy and cheap.

I could live with that if the product actually worked. Unfortunately, the sound quality is terrible and the unit goes through batteries like they're going out of style. We've been lucky to get 2 hours of play time out of a fresh set of alkalines.

This product isn't worth $5, let alone the (money) I paid for it.

The batteries were extremely difficult to put into the unit, there being very little "slack" or room for the batteries to fit into their component.

I bought the unit for my girlfriend for Christmas. How embrassing then, when I found out the unit stopped working the very next day after she got it!

If all you want is a digital tuner in the shower, and you want to buy 6 new dry cells every 2 weeks, this is the product for you! I can't imagine how [angry] I'd be if had bought this for the CD player.

This product was given to me as a gift. It looked nice, smelled like a new piece of electronics, however, I think I've spent more on batteries than was paid for the device. I would highly recommend looking at other brands.

Very disappointing. The construction (rubber gaskets cheap) and the plastic chasis were of low quality. The unit is not very practical, requiring 6 "C" batteries that drain quickly. The A/C power cord (not included) can't really be used in the shower.

Although the buttons function well, ultimately the poor audio quality couldn't justify the cost.

I ordered this 3 times... NONE OF THEM WORKED! Save your money !